Activists plan protest of Worcester panhandling law

Local activists plan to protest the city’s new panhandling ordinance on Ash Wednesday.

From 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday the Saint Francis and Therese Catholic Worker community will go to Lincoln Square to hold signs and distribute leaflets.

According to the group, Buddhist mediation practitioner Robert Peters will wear a monk’s attire and hold a beggar’s bowl. Activist Scott Schaeffer-Duffy will wear a Franciscan habit and carry a beggar’s bowl. Mr. Schaeffer-Duffy will defy the newly passed city ordinance by begging on the median strip.

Any money collected will be donated to charity, according to the group.

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